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Temple of Zeus

temple, Agrigento, Italy

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atlantes

In atlas
…colossal scale in the Greek temple of Zeus (c. 500 bc) at Agrigentum (Agrigento), Sicily. Atlantes were used only rarely in the Middle Ages but reappeared in the Mannerist and Baroque periods.
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In Agrigento
The Temple of Zeus, in front of which stood a huge altar, was one of the largest and most original of all Doric buildings; it was still unfinished in 406 bce. Its ruins were quarried in 1749–63 to build the jetties of Porto Empedocle, and very…
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